Monday, July 6

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SPORE HOUSEWIFE DIES IN SLEEP
Desperate to lose weight, She took slimming drink but became...
SO WEAK, SHE HARDLY ATE.

She was so self-conscious about gaining 20Kg a few years ago that she hardly posed for photos with her three children, aged 7 to 14.
So when a close family friend offered Madam Lai Sock Kim a weight-loss supplement to try for free, she agreed.
The side-effects appeared almost immediately.
The 35-year-old housewife, who weighed 100kg could barely walk or eat, said relatives.
Her family said she would hallucinate often.
Through Madam Lai stopped taking the powdered supplement six month ago, the symptoms never went away.


She was often dizzy and suffered from headaches.
Her 11-year-old daughter Yoke Teng even had quit school to run household, as Madam Lai had no more strength to do housework.
On Saturday afternoon, Madam Lai died in her sleep in her three-room flat in Bukit Merah.
Her daughter couldn't rouse her from sleep, and called ambulance. Madam Lai was pronounced dead at home.
The cause of death is unknown at this point.
Madam Lai's husband, odd-job worker Lim Beng Siah, does not now the name of the weight-loss supplement.
Neither could show the sachets of powder, as he handed them to the authorities, who investigating.
All he knew was that 25 days last November, his wife would dissolve a packet of the powdered formula into a cup of water-drinking half a cup in the morning and another half at night.


VERY WEAK
At the funeral wake at the void deck below their flat last night, Mr Lim told The New Paper in Mandarin:"she became very weak after taking the medicine.
"I tried taking it for five days myself, and it make me so weak, i couldn't hold a cigarette.
However, the friend who supplied the weight-loss formula told him that the symptoms would disappeared with time as their bodies get used to the supplement, Mr Lin claimed.

Mr Lim added: "He even told me that if my wife managed to lose weight successfully, he would ask her to star in an advertisement.
"But now that this has happened, he has not even come to the funeral."
Although the weight-loss supplement had made her so weak that she would pant after taking a few steps, Madam Lai continued to drink it every day for almost a month.
She have been so conscious of her weight, she did not like taking pictures, said Yoke Teng. She said there were no recent photos of her mother.
The most recent group picture was taken one year ago with their extended family.
Madam Lai was so weak, i was an effort to even eat her meals, said Yoke Teng and her older brother, Jin Long, 14. They have another sibling, Yoke Peng, 7.

Yoke Teng said: "She would take a really long time to finish her meals, and she would have to eat very slowly."
Still, Madam Lai refused to see a doctor.
Mr Lim said of his wife: "i earn only $1,000 a month. She has always scrimped and saved, so she thought that seeing a doctor was a waste of money.
"whenever she had any extra money, she would spend it on the children."
Her sister-in-law, Madam Lai Lay Kheng, 40, also said that though she felt unwell, Madam Lai kept putting off her visit to the doctor because she was worried her three children if she were to be hospitalised.
Madam Lai had suddenly ballooned from around 80kg to 100kg a few years ago, relatives at the wake told The New Paper.
According to Mr Lim, it happened after Madam Lai suffered a miscarriage four years ago but he did not want to elaborate.
All he would say was the before she started taking the medication, she was very healthy.
Her children also said that besides being obese, Madam Lai only had a skin irritation, for which she would apply cream.


However, after taking the slimming powder, Madam Lai could not even do housework.
That burden fell on Yoke Teng, Who stopped going to school, partly to help out at home and partly because she didn't enjoy studying.
Yoke Teng recalled: "My mother would sit on a stool and watch me cook in the kitchen. She would give me instructions on what to cook and how to cook it."
She added that her mother often sat by her table in the bedroom in a daze, and sometimes suffered hallucinations.
She said that sometimes, even though they weren't talking, she would ask them whether they were talking to her. She added that it was "frightening".
She also recalled:"She told me that when she closed her eyes, she would feel as through the ground was spinning."
Madam Lai also grew fearful in sleeping, often staying up up all night to chat with her son, Jin Long.
Said the student: "Each time she came to look for me because she couldn't sleep, I was very worried about her."I wonder how she knew that she was going to die in her sleep"



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